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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight

An African Childhood

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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight

By: Alexandra Fuller
Narrated by: Lisette Lecat
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In 1972, when Alexandra Fuller was two years old, her parents finally abandoned their English life and returned to what was then Southern Rhodesia and to the beginning of a civil war. By the time she was eight, the war was in full swing.

Her parents veered from being determined farmers to being blind drunk, whilst Alexandra and her sister, the only survivors of five children, alternately take up target practice and sing Rod Stewart songs from sun bleached rocks. This memoir is about living through a civil war; it is about losing children and losing that war, and realising that the side you have been fighting for may well be the wrong one.

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Critic Reviews

Book Sense Book of the Year Award Winner, Adult Non-Fiction, 2003

"A classic is born in this tender, intensely moving and even delightful journey through a white African girl's childhood." (Publishers Weekly)

"This was no ordinary childhood, and it makes a riveting story thanks to an extraordinary telling." (School Library Journal)

"In this powerful debut, Fuller fully succeeds in memorializing the beauty of each desert puddle and each African summer night sky while also recognizing that beauty can lie hidden in the faces of those who have crossed her path. Highly recommended." (Library Journal)

"An honest, moving portrait of one family struggling to survive tumultuous times." (Booklist)
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Brought back so many wonderful memories of my childhood and life in Africa where my heart remains so deeply seated. thank you for the story.

Wonderful

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Want to start this again - so real, exquisite descriptions - feel like I’ve been on a trip to Africa.

Beautiful

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An honest look at living in Africa. The narrator does an excellent job. Give yourself time to get settled into the book, it's worth it!

A walk down memory lane

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I loved this book and I think anyone with any history in Africa will too. It's not my story but every part of it was familiar in some way and took me back to very different times.

rich language, perfect narration

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